Perry has been fighting or state rights long before you were born. If you can stop drinking the ‘Ron Paul’ Aid long enough, you will see it.

TheRightMan on December 28, 2011 at 7:11 AM
Uh huh. Only thing I see is a sore loser, whining about how he couldn’t compete on a level playing field, in a forum that should be anathema to both states’ rights advocates and anti-judicial-activists.

JohnGalt23 on December 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM

Bottom line: Ron Paul’s and Mitt Romney’s campaigns had their acts together and got in the required signatures. They are run by competent people, apparently. Perry? Not so much. Sorry, Perry, it’s time for you to pack it in.

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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:42:02 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5231179Sigh, Rick Perry should stop wasting money and should hurry up and endorse Romney so that we can all unite and focus on defeating Obama.
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:29:35 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5230527Ooopsy! Guess this Bill Pascoe of Citizens for the Republic is “whining” as well.

Perry’s campaign is not the only group seeking to change the state’s rules: Bill Pascoe of a conservative organization called Citizens for the Republic is considering a challenge to the ballot certification process based on the fact that only candidates who submitted less than 15,000 signatures had their petitions cross-referenced with voting roles, which Pascoe said leaves the system open to fraud.

Uh huh. Only thing I see is a sore loser, whining about how he couldn’t compete on a level playing field, in a forum that should be anathema to both states’ rights advocates and anti-judicial-activists.

JohnGalt23 on December 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM

Whining? Suing a state to reinforce a decision that’s been reached three times before by the Tenth Circuit is “whining”?

Perry has been fighting or state rights long before you were born. If you can stop drinking the ‘Ron Paul’ Aid long enough, you will see it.

TheRightMan on December 28, 2011 at 7:11 AM

Uh huh. Only thing I see is a sore loser, whining about how he couldn’t compete on a level playing field, in a forum that should be anathema to both states’ rights advocates and anti-judicial-activists.

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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:41:21 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5229711Not wanting to rain on the current parade, but…Ahem, back on subject.

Here’s one case, from the Tenth Circuit, finding state residency requirements for petition circulators unconstitutional; two other federal appellate courts have ruled similarly. The question is whether the Fourth Circuit, which covers Virginia, will rule the same way. How lucky do you feel?

the threshold of minimum signatures was raised from 10,000 to 15,000 at the END of the process. Why is this so hard for you to grasp?

Daemonocracy on December 28, 2011 at 8:54 AM

Ed Morrissey just wrote:

Update III: A few people have pointed to this undated announcement from Pat Mullins as a kind of “smoking gun” to prove that the rules changed late in the game. However, all this memo does is explain exactly how Virginia law requires the RPV to certify petitions, and doesn’t change anything at all. State law allows them to assume that a submission of more than 15,000 signatures amounts to enough signatures to assume the 10,000, but otherwise the signatures must be checked against state law, in subsection 24.2-506, which states (emphasis mine):

it is literally farcical how comic the Perry campaign has been from the very beginning..

the guy claims to be Mr. States Rights, and then sues a state to have the Federal Government intervene so he can get on a ballot he screwed up on?!!

that is too classic.

AirForceCane on December 28, 2011 at 4:05 AM

+1

It would seem Perry’s only idea of States Rights is Texas independence. You’d think a state having rules about how you get on the ballot and restricting the petitioners to its own residents and not bussed in out-of-staters is about as States Rights as it gets.

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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:48:10 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5228654Oh My, this isn’t just going to go away and be swept under the Republican carpet. I hope there are lots of depositions taken.
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:39:31 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5228632Perry will win this lawsuit .The question is how long it will take?Probably not before the Virginia primary in march of 2012.The precedent that has already been rule on by past courts saying that states may require a fee equal for all candidates but may not require special rules like signed petitions especially like Virginia so many from each county or district.Case law as i understand it from the court dissension basically says.While a candidate could pay the same filling fee like all of the other candidates to be on a states ballot the undo expense of getting the petition done may restrict or eliminate candidates who other wise would be a quantified candidate.
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:29:06 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-52285991. The GOP nominee list of options is rotten.
2. If the infighting amongst the HotAir commenters is any reflection on the GOP party itself, we shouldn’t be surprised that the U.S. loses in 2012.
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:04:56 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5228539Someone needs to get the head of the VA GOP to make a statement on whether and when the signature checking was supposed reimplemented or not, not comments from an underling.

Until we can ascertain this, this is all just hot air gas….

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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:00:22 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5228522I know this is counter-intuitive but I think the 15,000 signatures and we will not look at them was there to HELP the minor candidates who had problems getting VALID signatures.

It seems none of them took the HINT

that way the STATE would have been satisfied and the VRP could say
Hey they got 15,000 signatures

Ha, the Mitt-haters would have gone crazy if Mitt’s campaign was sloppy and incompetent enough to not follow the rules of the VA primary and then SUE to get on the ballot anyway. But if it’s one of the bumbling NOMITT hobbits? A-Ok to be an incompetent!

Priscilla on December 28, 2011 at 8:00 AM

the threshold of minimum signatures was raised from 10,000 to 15,000 at the END of the process. Why is this so hard for you to grasp?

And the Attorney General of Virginia must be your nemesis considering his words on this matter:

I would throw out for consideration that we should lower our requirements to 100 legitimate signatures per congressional district.

Let’s face it, absent a serious write-in challenge from some other candidate, Virginia won’t be nearly as ‘fought over’ as it should be in the midst of such a wide open nomination contest. Our own laws have reduced our relevance. Sad.

I will be enjoying the Federal Govt. being downsized and made inconsequential. Not to mention a lot of `leeches` being placed out of work.

TheRightMan on December 28, 2011 at 1:20 AM

That’s not going to happen. Between the public-employee unions and the effect on unemployment when large buckets of government workers are fired, the pushback from the bureaucracy will be too strong. I think Perry’s throwing out red meat here to differentiate himself.

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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:21:38 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5228450If Rick Perry actually had 11,900 then he has a 50 percent failure rate.
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:00:38 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5228424Ha, the Mitt-haters would have gone crazy if Mitt’s campaign was sloppy and incompetent enough to not follow the rules of the VA primary and then SUE to get on the ballot anyway. But if it’s one of the bumbling NOMITT hobbits? A-Ok to be an incompetent!
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:55:47 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=171856#comment-5228419Perry is HAWT and governs Texas the way I’d like to see America governed (vs. ‘Massachusetts MITT’)!